# annual (temporal)

happening each year

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [year](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-year.time), [regular](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-regular.frequency), [happen](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-happen.event-occurrence)

**Through:** A year repeats with regular frequency, creating a once-per-year recurrence of an event.

**Novel properties:**
- periodic recurrence
- annual occurrence
- temporal regularity

## Examples
- The Perseid meteor shower peaks every August when Earth crosses the orbit of comet Swift-Tuttle. *(astronomy)*
- The fiscal year-end audit at Toyota requires consolidated reports from all 528 subsidiaries worldwide. *(economics)*
- Linux kernel version updates are released every 9-10 months following a strict merge window schedule. *(computing)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-annual.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-annual.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*